Saara Nolvi
Ph.D (FT), adjunct professor (dos.)
FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study saara.nolvi@utu.fi Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku Teutori 2. krs Office: Med A307/Pub 318 Contact requests by e-mail. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4959-1473 |
prenatal stress; early life stress; postnatal stress; anxiety; temperament; fear reactivity; executive functioning; socioemotional development; cognitive development; structural equation modelling; milk cortisol; brain structure; amygdala; MRI; fMRI, DTI
Pronouns: she/hers
I am adjunct professor and psychologist and currently work as post-doctoral reseacher in Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) under the division of Psychology and in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. I have currently started as senior researcher in the InterLearn Centre of Excellence, funded by Academy of Finland.
My research focuses on early life environmental effects on child self-regulation development and the neural and other biological mechanisms underlying these associations. I am also interested in the inter-individual differences in sensitivity to stress and environment, and how these differences in plasticity are shaped by the environment across development. I conduct the research in a multi-cohort setting, with an aim is to use methods that increase reproducibility and research credibility.
Teacher education (60 ects); experience from teaching and lecturing from all age groups and educational levels
Taught courses currently:
PSYK3933 Developmental psychology I
PSYK4323 Master's thesis (Psychology)
- Across ages and places : Unpredictability of maternal sensory signals and child internalizing behaviors (2024)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Antecedents of maternal pregnancy-related anxiety trajectories: The FinnBrain birth cohort study (2024)
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy (2024)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Prepandemic to Early COVID-19 : Changes in Couple Functioning and Links With Harsh Parenting (2024)
- Journal of Family Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Trajectories of maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms and child's socio-emotional outcome during early childhood (2024)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Association of cumulative prenatal adversity with infant subcortical structure volumes and child problem behavior and its moderation by a coexpression polygenic risk score of the serotonin system (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self-regulation, and early communicative development-Evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Infancy
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Childcare context and socio-emotional development in toddlers - a quantitative report from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Finland (2023)
- European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Course of child social-emotional and sleep symptoms, parental distress and pandemic-related stressors during COVID-19 (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Infant gut microbiota and negative and fear reactivity (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Investigating the role of relationship satisfaction and paternal psychological distress during pregnancy on offspring health in early life (2023)
- BJPsych Open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Latent profile analysis of diurnal cortisol patterns at the ages of 2, 3.5, and 5 years: Associations with childcare setting, child individual characteristics, and maternal distress (2023)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and psychological symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and role of alexithymia: A latent transition analysis in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Maternal executive functioning is associated with infant sustained attention, but not executive functioning, in a sex-specific manner (2023)
- Nordic Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Maternal Perinatal Stress Trajectories and Negative Affect and Amygdala Development in Offspring (2023)
- American Journal of Psychiatry
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index is associated with newborn offspring hypothalamic mean diffusivity: a prospective dual-cohort study (2023)
- BMC Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Polygenic risk for neuroticism is associated with externalizing symptoms in 2-year-old boys (2023)
- Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Spillover effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on attitudes to influenza and childhood vaccines (2023)
- BMC Public Health
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))